https://artcritical.com/2012/09/25/sandi-slone-2/ Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:28:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://artcritical.com/2012/09/25/sandi-slone-2/#comment-21406 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:19:03 +0000 https://www.artcritical.com/?p=26396#comment-21406 Ms Halasz does not seem to understand most artists take a journey in their current moment of history with faith in unknown depth-diving and dare to risk revealing false starts and unbalanced bumblings in order to make gorgeous discoveries. I would suggest to Ms Halasz that it might be a wonderful experience for her to experiment a bit in her reviews, at least for a little while, by leaving out the words trendy and relevant. We artists live with our self doubts and the intellectual curiosity that brings inspiration in nights of heaven as well as hell. Then work makes more work, as Cage said. It reveals a lack of imagination to think that “any artist is better off trying to inaugurate trends than to follow them”. Artists do not “inaugurate” trends anymore than a toddler inaugurates walking. They just do their work of finding ways to move. They fall down, get up and fall down again. Or as Becket said “fail better”. The outcome is merely another foot in front of another — but uniquely — and sometimes, if fortunate, brilliantly.

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